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Unequal access to opioid agonist treatment and sterile injecting equipment among hospitalized patients with injection drug use-associated infective endocarditis.

Thomas D BrothersKimiko MosselerSusan KirklandPatti MelansonLisa BarrettDuncan Webster
Published in: PloS one (2022)
Patients with IDU-IE in the Canadian Maritimes have unequal access to evidence-based addiction care depending on where they are hospitalized, which differs from the community-based standard of care. Indicators of potential unmet addiction care needs in hospital were common.
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